Aviation

The flight operations during nights at the Goa airport will be shut till September 2021 as the runway is being closed for modernisation, a senior official said. The Goa airport is part of the INS Hansa Base at Vasco town in Goa. Indian Navy spokesman said the modernisation work has began from May 8 onwards which will continue till September 8,...

The US has reissued its travel advisory on India, urging its citizens not to travel to the country due to an unprecedented surge in the COVID-19 cases there. India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a...

China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders' efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from China despite Beijing offering "support and assistance" to the country to deal with the latest surge of COVID-19 cases. In a letter to the sales agents on...

Canada on Thursday said it is banning all flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days due to the growing wave of COVID-19 cases in that region. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said the ban would start late Thursday, speaking hours after India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections in the previous 24-hours. Cargo flights from...

Britain on Monday added India to its COVID-19 travel "red list", which effectively bans all travel from the country and makes a 10-day hotel quarantine compulsory for UK residents arriving back to the country. Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the move in the House of Commons as he revealed that 103 cases of the so-called Indian variant had been identified...

Hong Kong has suspended international flights from India as coronavirus cases rise at an unprecedented pace. The ban will be effective from April 20 till May 2. The decision to suspend flights from India was taken after 50 passengers on two Vistara flights tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival. The Asian business powerhouse country has also banned flights from...

India's domestic passenger traffic slipped to a 10-year low at an estimated 53.4 million in the just-concluded financial year, a report said. However, in the previous fiscal there were no passenger flight operations for almost two months due to the pandemic-induced lockdown. During the financial year 2010-11, all domestic air operators together had flown a total of 53.8 million passengers...

Homegrown carrier SpiceJet has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with New York-based Avenue Capital Group for financing, acquisition and sale and lease-back of 50 new planes. The MoU sets out the next steps and conditions upon which Avenue, as part of the deal, will assist with placing SpiceJet's new aircraft portfolio. It includes sale and lease-back of and...

The government announced on Tuesday that it has extended the suspension of international commercial passenger flights till April 30, 2021. International commercial passenger flights were suspended on March 23, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic. International flights have remained suspended since then. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in a circular noted, "However, international scheduled flights may be allowed on...

A vertical drop in passenger volume due to the on-going pandemic can lead to a steep 90 per cent fall in the operating profits of the four private airports-Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. These airports accounted for over 90 per cent of the air passenger traffic handled by private airports in the country and around 55 per cent of...